![]() A strong supporting female character would have been a wise addition, but Isabella’s character fails to provide such a presence. Roselyn Sanchez offers little more than eye-candy as the “playing them for fools” temptress whose subplot seems ill-contrived and ultimately unnecessary. It’s a shame the same cannot be said about the major supporting cast. While nothing is terribly new, the action-comedy blend never gets unwatchable, despite the fact that there isn’t really enough fresh material to warrant a feature-length production.ĭon Cheadle and Jeremy Piven make exceptional cameo appearances, while the majority of bit part characters are quite good. Additionally, recurring jokes about the language barrier and racial quips return through laugh-out-loud scenes in a karaoke bar, a massage parlor, and some hilarious voyeurism (involving Roselyn Sanchez as a sexy undercover agent). New quirks include his appreciation for the Beach boys, while Chan now conversely favors rap – with Tucker’s fast-paced dialogue still gushing forth like a burst dam, all sorts of random subject matter are discussed. Maintaining equal parts comedy and action, as well as the same fish-out-of-water formula that worked for the first film, the major cultural flip is now in Tucker’s role as the foreigner. Along the way, they’re caught up in a deadly game of deception with the Secret Service and targeted for hostility by Triad crime lord Ricky Tan (John Lone).Ĭhris Tucker and Jackie Chan still make a pleasingly cinematic team Chan’s calmer, cooler demeanor perfectly contrasts Tucker’s hysterics and nonstop yapping. ![]() When Carter and Lee are inadvertently embroiled in an American Embassy bombing case, their investigation leads them back to Los Angeles and then to Nevada to track down those behind the conspiracy. ![]() The plot still suffers from obvious unoriginality, but in this second outing the villains and supporting characters have also been downgraded to an even more trivial state.ĭetective Carter (Chris Tucker) is on vacation in China with Inspector Lee (Jackie Chan), who secretly decides to start investigating a case that may have ties to his father’s death several years back. The mismatched pair retains their amusing onscreen chemistry, while the action and stunts get crazier and more elaborate (a common goal for sequels), once again utilizing visuals to eclipse the storyline itself. But later in Las Vegas, at the Red Dragon Casino, Lee has been framed when Ricky Tan faked his death and is now still alive but Hu Li places a small bomb in his mouth, and gags him.Hanging the setting and missions doesn’t affect the entertainment value of the hip comedy team of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker in this follow-up to 1998’s popular martial arts thrill-ride. In the chaos, Hu Li escapes into a sewer come emerge in downtown Las Vegas, but Carter and Lee are forced to be sent back to Los Angeles. Tan's underling, Hu Li, appears and shoots Tan, and he falls off the boat. ![]() When confronted, Tan claims that someone is trying to frame him. Lee learns that Ricky Tan will be attending a dinner party on his boat. The American and Hong Kong authorities soon get into a fight over the jurisdiction of the case. Tan, who played an instrumental role in his father's death, who is now the leader of the Triads, the most deadly gang in all of China. And Inspector Lee is assigned to the case, which becomes personal when it is discovered that the man behind it is Ricky Tan, Lee's father's former partner. However, soon after they arrive, a bomb explodes in the American Embassy. Chief Inspector Lee and Detective James Carter are back! But this time they're now in Hong Kong on a vacation. ![]()
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